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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"
"What darkness to you is light to me"
"All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived."
"I believe that water will one day be employed as fuel, that hydrogen and oxygen which constitute it, used singly or together, will furnish an inexhaustible source of heat and light, of an intensity of which coal is not capable."
"The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments of civilization."
"Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best."
"Civilization never recedes; the law of necessity ever forces it onwards."
"We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulgar gaze, it is better to let them wear out by being read."
"It seems wisest to assume the worst from the beginning...and let anything better come as a surprise."
"Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way."
"Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction."
"You will travel in a Land of Marvels"
"On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!"
"Therever fortune clears a way, thither our ready footsteps stray."
"But to find, all at once, right before your eyes, that the impossible had been mysteriously achieved by man himself: this staggers the mind!"
"The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the 'Living Infinite."
"Though sleep is called our best friend, it is a friend who often keeps us waiting!"
"It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover."
"The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings."
"He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit."